Frontend Focus
Issue 227 — February 17, 2016
A thorough introduction to ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications), an approach to making your sites more accessible to people with disabilities.
Georgie Luhur

Involves using the CSS calc() function and the width, min-width and max-width properties. It even seems to work with Gmail.
Rémi Parmentier

A practical and thorough look at the basics of HTTP/2 as they apply to web designers and developers.
Rachel Andrew

Frontend Masters
With v2, Ember is more performant and complete than ever. In this course we’ll build a rich cross-device app together step-by-step from scratch.
Frontend Masters   Sponsor

Chrome is intending to change the behavior of normal stylesheet loading (via ‘link’) so only rendering of content located after the ‘link’ element is blocked. This has key performance implications.
Jake Archibald

A slidedeck that walks through all of the basic principles behind WebGL and 3D graphics. Both a good refresher or great primer before you read other material.
Nick Desaulniers

A developer from the BBC’s Visual Journalism unit explains how to work out a solid cross-browser testing strategy.
Chris Ashton

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In Brief

W3C Launches The Web Authentication Working Group news
Its goal is to develop Web standards that use strong cryptography instead of password exchange.
W3C

The Dolby Audio Web Challenge news
Dolby (yes, the audio people) are running a Web audio challenge (complete with prizes).
Dolby

Chrome Change Breaks The Visual Viewport news
QuirksMode

Looking for search engines to crawl your AngularJS application? rawurl tutorial
Learn how Wijmo improved SEO in their AngularJS site by following these few easy steps.
Grape City  Sponsor

Implementing Content Security Policy tutorial
Content Security Policy (CSP) is a security standard introduced to help prevent cross-site scripting (XSS). It’s implemented via HTTP headers.
Mozilla Hacks

How to Lint Your Sass/CSS Properly with Stylelint tutorial
Scotty Vernon

Turn Your AMP Up To 11: Everything You Need To Know About Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages tutorial
Smashing Magazine

Why npm Scripts? (During Web Design) opinion
Damon Bauer

Estimating A Front End Web Dev Job opinion
Hans Kristian Smedsrød

Diff of HTMLs: Unofficial Diff Viewer of WHATWG HTML vs W3C HTML 5.1 tools
Takeshi Kurosawa

Announcing client-side JS error logging rawurl tools
Beautiful annotated stacktraces with sourcemap support, intelligent error grouping & auto-assignment.
Opbeat  Sponsor

Free Photoshop Tools For Web Designers tools
Smashing Magazine

Atomic Chrome: Edit Chrome Textareas in Atom tools code
Daniel Perez

markup.ml: Error-Recovering Streaming HTML5 and XML Parsers code
Written in OCaml.
Anton